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October 29th, 2012 at 1:02 pm

re: ‘trick” no mention of a prostitutes customer being
‘a trick’.

Craig O'Connor:

November 7th, 2012 at 8:51 pm

What about trick as in “winning a trick” in a card game? Or as used in relation to prostitutes, who “turn tricks”? Or even “tricked out,” as in a souped up car? And “souped up”? Where the heck did that come from?

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